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(No Model.)

No. 484,087. Patented oct. 1v1', 1892.

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'UNITED -STATES f'Pl/iTENir QEEIOE.

PAUL H. OOLELL, OF NE-w YORK, N. Y., AssIGNOR OE ONEHALE To ROBERT L. PRANGE, OE SAME PLACE.l

PARLOVR BOWLING GAM E-BOARDQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,087, vdated October 11, 1892.

Application filed February l0, 1892. Serial No. 421,001. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PAUL H. COLELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Parlor Bowling Game-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improved parlor bowling game, on which twov parties can bowl at the same time and in opposition to each other, one using the spent balls of the other and setting up the pins for his opponent; and the invention consists of a parlor bowling game composed of an exterior box formed of two hinged sections which are made of greater height at their diagonally-opposite end walls and of less height at the remaining walls, each section being provided with a raised alley or gutter having a board for the pins at its end, gutters along the sides and ends, the bottom of which is inclined from the corner of one section to the corner of the opposite section and along the recesses from the recessed adjacent side walls to the boxsection, as will be fully described hereinafter, and iinally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents a perspective view of my improved parlor bowling game, showing the same in closed position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same, shown as opened for use. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section on line 3 3, Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section on line 4 4, Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

. Referring to the drawings, A represents the inclosing box of my improved parlor bowling game, which box is formed of two sections A A2, each of which is a duplicate of the other and which are hinged together in any suitable manner. The box-sections A A2 are preferably made higher at the two diagonally-opposite end walls and lower at the remaining walls, as shown clearly in Figs. l and 2, the outer side wall of each box-section being preferably inclined at its middle part, so as to connect the higher corner to the lower corner of the same. Within each box-section is arranged a raised alley B, which is provided at its end with a pin-board B', said pin-board being arranged at the higher corner of each box-section, while the end of the alley from which the balls are shot is arranged at the lower corner of each box-section. At both sides of the raised alley B and between the same and the side walls of each box-sectionflongitudinal gutters are formed in which the balls can be guided to the bowlers end of the alley when the same run off the alley B. The ad- 6o jacent side walls of the box-sections A2 A arc recessed at both ends, as at D, and the bottoms of the box-sections at the ends of the alleys arranged at a suitable inclination E, that extends from the highest corner of one box-section to the lowest corner of the other box-section and through the recessed end p0rtions of the side walls of the same, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 4. This inclination produces the automatic running oft ofthe spent 7c balls,l from the end of one box-section to the bowling end of the adjoining alley. The lower corners of the box-sections A A2 are made slightly higher than the raised alley, so that the balls are retained in the gutter formed be- 7 5 tween the end walls of the box-sections and the pin-board and between the alley and the throwing end ot' the other alley, respectively. The balls being thus automaticallyfdelivered to eachplayer after they are spent, they are So ready for' use by the same. The shooting of the balls is produced by the knuckles in the manner well known to boys, or by any other suitable propelling device at the lower end of each box-section, which lower end gives free 85. access to the throw end of the alley, while the setting of the pinsis preferably accomplished by the left hand on the adjoining alley by vthe associate or by the opponent when they play against each other. When the game is 9o completed, the balls and pins are collected in one of the higher corners of one box-section and the other box-section then moved on its hinges, so as to form a closedbox, whichcan then be locked by suitable locking devices. A neat and comparatively-inexpensive parlor bowling gameis thus furnished, which forms an attractive game not only for boys, but also for grown people.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure roo by Letters Patent,'is

1. A parlor bowling. game composed of two hinged box-sections, the diagonal opposite end walls of which are made higher than the remaining walls, a raised alley arranged in each box-section, and a pin-board arranged at the end of each alley, substantially as set forth.

2, A parlor bowling game composed of two hinged box-sections, the diagonally-opposite end walls of which are made higher while the remaining walls are made lower, araised alley arranged in each box-section and provided Witha pin-board at opposite ends, recesses arranged near both ends of the adjacent side Walls, and a transversely-inclined gutter that extends from the higher end of onelo'oX-section'to the lower endn ofthe adjoining looX- I5 y section, so as to send the spent balls from one box-seotion to the other, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregolng as my invention I have signed'my name 1n pres- 2o ence of two subscribing Witnesses.

PAUL I-I. COLELL.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, CHARLES SOHROEDER. 

